44.1 and 48k have paid the bills here for years. In all these years I only recall twice that someone asked for a higher sample rate. And one of them had me convert a 44.1 session to 96 and he said he could hear a huge improvement. What a fun business.

This post is in no way meant as a sample rate suggestion. We should all choose what makes us happy.

In the age of musicplayer forum I remember a post where Roger Nichols said that during a blind test none of them were able to pick which one was the 48khz and the 96khz while he was able to recognize the 24bit compared to 16